Eduardo Cavazos wrote: > Let's assume the newbie is living in mandatory encoding parameter land. > The newbie, being a typical newbie, learned about <file-writer> by seeing it > used in some code. He saw "..." utf8 <file-writer>. > > Statistically speaking, based on encoding distributions, he is most > likely to > see that incantation, with the 'utf8'. > > Now, this guy is a newbie. We're talking, Factor is his first programming > language. So, what does he do? He pastes that code into his program when > trying to read his jpeg... and confusion ensues. > The newbie types '\ utf8 help' in the listener :-)
> I think it's an awful idea to optimize for the newbie at the expense of the > hacker and elegance of the language. > I certainly wasn't advocating an approach where the language is optimized for the newbie *at the expense* of the hacker. Slava ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
